Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities

PD Taylor, MA Wilson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Marine organisms have occupied hard substrates since the Archaean. Shells, rocks, wood
and sedimentary hardgrounds offer relatively stable habitats compared to unconsolidated …

Bivalve taphonomy in tropical mixed siliciclastic-carbonate settings. I. Environmental variation in shell condition

MMR Best, SM Kidwell - Paleobiology, 2000‏ - cambridge.org
Contrary to the geological stereotype of pure-carbonate reef platforms, approximately 50%
of shallow shelf area in the Tropics is accumulating siliciclastic and mixed siliciclastic …

Echinoderm ichnology: bioturbation, bioerosion and related processes

Z Belaústegui, F Muñiz, JH Nebelsick… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
Among invertebrates and both in modern and ancient marine environments, certain
echinoderms have been and are some of the most active and widespread bioturbators and …

Competition between encrusters on marine hard substrates and its fossil record

PD Taylor - Palaeontology, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many animals and plants that colonize hard surfaces in the sea are sessile and either bore
into, or cement themselves permanently to the substrate surface. Because they retain their …

Hypoxic events on a middle Miocene carbonate platform of the Central Paratethys (Austria, Badenian, 14 Ma)

HP Schmid, M Harzhauser, A Kroh, S Coric… - … Museums in Wien. Serie …, 2000‏ - JSTOR
During the Middle Miocene Badenian the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin was structured by the
Leitha and the Fertörákos carbonate platforms, comprising different lithological types of the …

Echinoderms and Oligo‐Miocene carbonate systems: potential applications in sedimentology and environmental reconstruction

A Kroh, JH Nebelsick - Carbonate Systems during the …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Echinoderms represent a major ecological component and contribute considerably to
Oligocene–Miocene carbonate sediments, both as macrofossils and as skeletal grains. The …

The stormy path from life to death assemblages: the formation and preservation of mass accumulations of fossil sand dollars

JH Nebelsick, A Kroh - Palaios, 2002‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Clypeasteroids can be very common in Recent, shallow water environments in a variety of
biogeographic settings and represent important members of benthic invertebrate …

A comparison of living and dead molluscs on coral reef associated hard substrata in the northern Red Sea—implications for the fossil record

M Zuschin, J Hohenegger, FF Steininger - Palaeogeography …, 2000‏ - Elsevier
Fidelity of death assemblages to live shelly faunas is one of the major palaeontological
questions, but quantitative data are scarce and most case studies on this topic have been …

Patterns of bioconstruction in the cheilostome bryozoan Schizoporella errata: the influence of hydrodynamics and associated biota

S Cocito, F Ferdeghini, C Morri… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2000‏ - int-res.com
In the region of La Spezia (Ligurian Sea, Italy), the bryozoan Schizoporella errata forms
sizeable buildups, termed'giant colonies' or'compound colonies' by previous investigators …

Oichnus Bromley Borings in the Irregular Echinoid Hemipneustes Agassiz from the Type Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous, The Netherlands and Belgium)

S Donovan, J Jagt - Ichnos, 2003‏ - Taylor & Francis
Three ichnospecies of Oichnus Bromley occur in tests of the large holasteroid echinoid
Hemipneustes striatoradiatus (Leske) in the type area of the Maastrichtian (Upper …